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2. Essential tremor - Wikipedia

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   Essential tremor (ET), also called benign tremor, familial tremor, and idiopathic tremor, is a medical condition characterized by involuntary rhythmic contractions and relaxations (oscillations or twitching movements) of certain muscle groups in one or more body parts of unknown cause. [ 6 ] It is typically symmetrical, and affects the arms ...

3. Ali Rezai (neurosurgeon) - Wikipedia

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   Ali R. Rezai (born 1965) [1] is an Iranian-born American neurosurgeon and neuroscientist. [2] [3] His work and research has focused on neuromodulation treatments for patients with neurological and mental health conditions, [4] including neuromodulation techniques such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) through brain chip implants to treat Parkinson's disease tremors, obsessive–compulsive ...

4. Deep brain stimulation - Wikipedia

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   An adult male undergoing pre-op preparation for deep brain stimulation Insertion of electrode during surgery using a stereotactic frame. DBS is FDA approved or has FDA device exemptions for treatment of Parkinson's Disease, dystonia, Essential Tremor, obsessive-compulsive disorder and epilepsy.

5. Intention tremor - Wikipedia

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   Specialty. Neurology. Intention tremor is a dyskinetic disorder characterized by a broad, coarse, and low-frequency (below 5 Hz) tremor evident during deliberate and visually-guided movement (hence the name intention tremor). An intention tremor is usually perpendicular to the direction of movement. When experiencing an intention tremor, one ...

6. Focused ultrasound - Wikipedia

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   Frontal MRI four days after MRgFUS (MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound): Left ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim) thalamotomy. 79-year-old man with essential tremor. One of the first applications of HIFU was the treatment of Parkinson's disease in the 1940s. Although ineffective at the time, HIFU has the capacity to lesion pathology.

7. Thalamotomy - Wikipedia

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   Thalamotomy is a complex procedure performed by specialist neurosurgeons. It is mostly indicated in cases of stroke, damage to third ventricle of brain, brain hemorrhage, accidents leading to head injury, oedema around thalamus, subdural hemorrhage, and cerebrovascular accident. There is also some evidence in thalamocortical dysrhythmia.